Build a platformer in Scratch

An Endless Scrolling background:

In our last session, we created an endless scrolling background by creating a simple painted sprite, splitting it and reversing each vertical half. You can clone that project here:

Jumping

Think about what happens when you jump: first you go up, then you go down. To achieve jumping, we need to create a second script on the player sprite, in our case it's called Sprite1. First, we create a new variable called y vel, which is short for y velocity, in other words, the speed by which our sprite's y position will change. Second we need something to trigger the jump with: I chose the space key. Finally we set the y vel to a positive number and decrease that number incrementally for a limited amount of times. Here's the script:

And here is what it looks like:

Making it a game

Next session we will create obstacles, use collision detection to see when the cat hits them and save score to a variable! See you then.